Reducing the size of SWF Files

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Over at Moshi HQ, we've spent a fair bit of time looking at how to reduce the size of the SWFs we publish; here's a quick checklist to rattle through to get the most bang for your buck (or in this case, Kb) 1. Joa Ebert's Apparat. Joa is an ActionScript hero ...

Flash on the Beach 2008 – Tuesday Write Up

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I went down to the Flash on the Beach 08 conference yesterday, here's some of the notes that I wrote up on the train back: Creating The Next Generation Happy Meal Toy Julain Dolce Julian is lead Developer for Fuel Industies, a creative agency that worked on a large scale campaign for the ...

Actionscript – Loading Acute and UTF-8 Characters from XML into Dynamic Text with Flash

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Writing flexible applications in Flash is easy, (/me points in the direction of my XML Configuration Class) and there's few reasons why all your text strings should not be read in at run time to allow for easy internationalization. However, one pitfall to be aware of is trying to use Acutes ...